Makeout City‘s Jay McCarthy understands the art of linking and the collage possibilities of threading together fragments from around the web — whether they’re his own thoughts or collected ideas from others, his posts are always essays. Jay is a man who gets the Montaignesque potential of blog. He often comments on religion, a subject in which Jay has read widely and eclecticly.

The Claremont Review of Books, put out by the conservative Claremont Institute (“a new, reinvigorated conservatism, one that draws upon the timeless principles of the American founding, and applies them to the moral and political problems that we face today”) is an interesting, intellectual read, whether or not you agree with their purpose, to help conservatism “understand its own majestic purposes, and become a more effective political force.”

Nth Position is a webzine that advertises “high weirdness” in all areas of inquiry; investigate their “strangeness” category for manifestations of the divine. Excellent writing and surprisingly good reporting (given that there’s limited cash behind this fine endeavor).

Oliver Willis bills himself as “kryptonite to stupid,” and we can testify to that slogan’s truth. Hey, wait — does that make us dumb? Nah. It just means Oliver is really smart. His popular blog is mostly political talk from a “center-left” perspective, but we think it’s relevant to Revealerreaders because Oliver gets the role of religion in American politics. That is, he gets that it has one, whether we like it or not, and that Dems and liberals in the U.S. are blind to its full influence and importance beyond the borders of New York and L.A.

One Inch Ahead features an interesting confluence of spirit and flesh–in the occasionally religious musings of a long distance runner.

Wood’s Lot is a strange and lovely collection of internet finds curated by Mark Woods from a small town near Ottowa. He seems to enjoy religious history, theology, and religiously-inspired art, and mixes these and other subjects of interest to Revealer readers into his “celebration” freely. What kind of “celebration”? His quotation of Heidegger is worth reading in entirety: “Celebration … is self-restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder — the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know this.”

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